. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. AA. Leaflets 7-9. filliottii, Nutt. Lfts. elliptio-oblong, notched, pubes- cent beneath : fls. white, tinged red : pod silky. Dry soil. S. C. to Fla. GALANTHTTS (Greek, milk flower). AmarylUdAcea. Snowdrop. The flowers of Snowdrops ( G. nivalis, Pig. 88H) are amongst the smallest and daintiest of our com- mon h
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. AA. Leaflets 7-9. filliottii, Nutt. Lfts. elliptio-oblong, notched, pubes- cent beneath : fls. white, tinged red : pod silky. Dry soil. S. C. to Fla. GALANTHTTS (Greek, milk flower). AmarylUdAcea. Snowdrop. The flowers of Snowdrops ( G. nivalis, Pig. 88H) are amongst the smallest and daintiest of our com- mon hardy cultivated spring-blooming bulbs. Much sentiment attaches to them, and in many an old-fash- ioned garden they are the earliest flowers of the new year. They often bloom in early March, before all the snow has gone. Their pendulous white flowers, with the "heart-shaped seal of green" dear to Rossetti, hold a unique place in the affections of lovers of gardens. Snowdrops are amongst the very few flowers in nature in which the green color is decidedly attractive to our senses. At first sight the fls. seem to have 3 large white petals, inclosing a green and white tube with 6 tips, but a second glance shows that the parts that function as petals are the outer segments of the peri- anth, while the 3 inner ones, with their 2-lobed tips, are not grown together, but overlap slightly, forming a rather crude but stiffish tube. It would be interesting to know whether the green marks have any relation to calyx tips. Each plant has a globose coated bulb, 2-3 Ivs., grows 6-9 in. high, and bears usually only 1 flower, which emerges from a spathe. Behind the perianth is a globose green body, which is the ovary. In a congenial spot, moist, cool and shady, the plants increase satisfactorily, and sometimes, without any care whatever, form a bed from which literally thousands of flowers maybe picked at whiit is. p. rh:ips. the most desolate and wearisome moment of the var. (For aflne
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